User talk:NewkirkPlaza

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NewkirkPlaza, good luck, and have fun. – Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:50, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

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Your Responce on the "Tumah and Taharah" Talk-Page
Hi, NewkirkPlaza! Welcome to Wikipedia. As for your comment on Talk:Tumah and Taharah, there, I agree with Ar2332 that this topic is resourced adequately. Perhaps the problem as you may see it has more to do with the Hebrew title of that page, whose meaning, in an English encyclopedia, is largely unclear to its English-speaking audience. There, the article discusses the Jewish legal laws touching "Impurity and Acts of Purification," for which entire treatises have been composed throughout a period spanning some of 2,000 years, the most notable of these authors being Yitzhak Alfasi, Maimonides, Joseph Karo, Jacob ben Asher, and a host of other rabbis - both new and old. This topic is no different from having an article on Wikipedia that discusses any particular custom known to Bhuddists, Muslims, Catholics, Taoists, etc., etc. There is a place for all knowledge, so long as it can be shown through verifiable and reliable sources. Be well.--Davidbena (talk) 13:21, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

I’ve been editing since 2012, but thank you for welcoming me, I guess? See my response on the Talk page for Tumah and Taharah. You mistook my point about how poorly resources the page was for ignorance about the subject itself (I’m a lifelong Jew and happen to be doing Daf Yomi, so I’m quite familiar with it). On Wikipedia can’t use a book to refer to itself, and you can’t say “the topic is resources adequately” when you have a References section that looks the way that it does. NewkirkPlaza (talk) 20:52, 24 May 2020 (UTC)